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In this paper the authors consider \(\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}\) with its usual contact metric structure and introduce the Whitney spheres as a family of imbedded spheres and integral submanifolds of the contact structure \[ (u_{0},u_{1},\dots ,u_{n})\rightarrow \frac{r}{1+u_{0}^2} \left(u_{0}u_{1},\dots ,u_{0}u_{n},u_{1},\dots ,u_{n},\frac{ru_{0}}{1+u_{0}^2}+C(1+u_{0}^2)\right)+B, \] where \(r\) is a positive number, \(B\) is a vector of \(\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}\) and \(C\) is a real constant. These spheres are called \textit{contact Whitney spheres}. Then, they obtain a general inequality for integral submanifolds in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}\), involving both the scalar curvature and the mean curvature, and use the equality case in order to characterize the contact Whitney spheres. They also give a characterization by the second fundamental form. Finally, the authors study the same problem for anti-invariant submanifolds tangent to the structure vector field on \(\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}\).